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Wuthering Heights to screen at Jones this weekend

 Let’s see, it’s been, what, 179 years since Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was published. Across that time, almost 40 film and TV adaptations of the novel have been produced. Reel News could be mistaken, but it appears the first one was a 1920 silent film produced in England; subsequent offerings have been made in Japan, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, and of course, the UK and America. Perhaps using adaptations from quiet book reading to moving images as the only framework to consider for critique of the 2026 Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights film accounts for the wildly divided frenzy we see in recent review articles. The films stand almost as a genre unto themselves, whether considered as Romance, Drama, Period Piece, etc. The professionals seem clearly…